Rod Wave earns his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Don’t Look Down debuts atop the list dated Sept. 12. The set earned 99,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its first week, ending Sept. 3, according to Luminate, largely driven by streaming activity. He previously led the list with Nostalgia (in 2023), Beautiful Mind (2022) and SoulFly (2021).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

Of Don’t Look Down’s 99,000 first-week equivalent album units, SEA units comprise 90,000 (equaling 95.07 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart), album sales comprise 9,000 (it debuts at No. 13 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

The album was released as a 20-track standard, widely available CD and vinyl LP, alongside an expanded 24-track digital download and streaming edition. For its physical release, it was issued across six vinyl variants (including two signed editions) and two CD variants (one signed).

Don’t Look Down was preceded by a trio of top 40-charted titles on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: “Hustle” (No. 13 peak in August), “Piece of Your Love” (No. 24 in July) and “Feed the Streets” (No. 33 in February).

Don’t Look Down marks the singer-rapper’s eighth top 10-charted project on the Billboard 200, comprising the entirety of his charted titles. His first top 10 came with Ghetto Gospel in 2019, peaking at No. 10 that November.

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published. S: Billboard